The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

Her Great work, OReerS and Splendid
MAnagement-FreaAA Strong Man
ager Goddard ana Ch1ef Engineer
Robinson.
/. The enterprising and successful At
Gibson, Topeka s. Santa Fe Railroad
Company is now engaged in building
two lines of railroads. One of them
opening up communication with En-
poria and st. Louis by the way Of OF
tawa, the other running from Girard,
Kansas, and connecting with the How
ard branch two miles below Madison
thence directly to Emporia, the
latter opening up some of
the best coal fields in the
state and enabling the company to lay
coal down in this city at less cost to it
self than at any other point along its
main line, when the quality of the coal
is taken into consideration. The work
upon both of these lines is being pushed
rapidly. The branch from st. Louis
to Ottawa is called the st. Louis, Kan
sas s. Colrado, and viii give US direct
communication and shorten up the
time between here and st. Louis con-
siderably. It is tacitly admitted by
railroad men that Emporia will one day
become the great distributing point
for the Santa Fe road. No one can
doubt that the Company will be
compelled to maintain repair shops
and extensive switching facilities at
this place. Aside from the value of the
Girard coal fields it gives us access to a
large area of valuable agricultural
country that has not heretofore been
tributary to this point and viii do us
about as much good as an independent
line. About one hundred miles of the
st. Louis, Kansas Sc Colorado is already
finished and in operation, and it will
not be many months before through
trains will be made up from this point
to st. Louis. The Santa Fe system viii
lose none Of its popularity under the
regime of Its new management. The
promotion of j. +. Goddard
to the position of general man,
ager is characterized as 8
master stroke and gives a great
deal of satisfaction to the railroad PEG
pie and the friends of the road gener
ally along its line, and it is looked upoI
as an appreciated recognition of true
merit, going a great ways towards
dissipating the theory that corpora
tions are always soulless. MIR. Goddard
is native of Massachusetts; is though
to be about forty years of age, although
looking much younger, and quite active
is about medium size, perfectly easy il
his manners and way of doing bust
ness;h pair of sharp eyes and comei
pretty near seeing all that is going Oh
around him without appearing in tn,
least nervous; always accessible ant
polite to those who seek to do bust
ness with him. He has lon,
borne the reputation of being on
among the very best traffic manager
in the United States. Mr.. A. A. Rob
inson, the chief engineer of the SAINT
Fe, is also held in high esteem by al
who know him, and he is PARTICULAR
in great favor with railroad men. He
as well as Mr.. Goddard, is a grea
worker, has been the engineer and con
structor of almost the entire Santa F
system. He is said to have travels
over every mile of the road, either O
foot or by hand-car. Mr.. G. w. Smit
goes to Chicago, and will, it is said
assist President, Strong in the genera
management of the Santa Fe system
Mr.. Strong has certainly shown grea
judgment in his selection of officers a
well as good generalship in plannin
his railroad campaigns, and he is justl
credited with Napoleonic genius.
IL II G. w